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Laura Passoni took her four-year-old son to Syria in 2014 to join ISIS and realized quickly she'd made a terrible mistake. "From that moment I did everything to try to leave so that my son wouldn’t become a terrorist,” she says.
Books
A Belgian woman explains why she joined ISIS, and why she came back
Yessy Bustos started picking in fields across America at age 8. Today she works in farmworker's rights advocacy.
Economics
In North Carolina, immigrant farmworkers wonder about their place in America
'Muslims Like Us' aims to show the diversity of Britain's Muslim communities
Culture
This BBC reality show has a very simple message: Not all Muslims are the same
Old Aleppo, looking toward the citadel, before the war. Many of the minarets and ancient buildings have been damaged or destroyed in the civil war.
Conflict
What’s been lost from Aleppo’s ‘magical’ Old City
A frog attempts to mate with female frogs in a pond in Tourrettes, southern France, May 27, 2012.
Conflict
French bothered by the sounds of mating frogs
Evacuees from rebel-held east Aleppo, arrive at the town of al-Rashideen, which is held by insurgents, just outside the city, Syria December 15, 2016.
Conflict
Leaving home: Syrians evacuate Aleppo (PHOTOS)
The Goreangab water treatment plant uses a process that partially mimics nature to turn sewage from Winhoek's 300,000 residents back into potable water. It opened in 1968 and was the first such plant in the world.
Environment
Recycling sewage into drinking water is no big deal. They’ve been doing it in Namibia for 50 years.
News Thump
Conflict
The Aleppo tragedy has left one Arab satirist with nothing to say
Yemenis pose for a picture next to a part of a missile they say was dropped during a Saudi-led air strike near the northwestern city of Saada, Yemen
Conflict
The US just made it harder for Saudi Arabia to bomb Yemen. The people of Yemen barely noticed.